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  2. List of fictional computers - Wikipedia

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    The Government Machine from Miles J. Breuer 's short story "Mechanocracy" (1932). The Brain from Laurence Manning 's novel The Man Who Awoke (1933). The Machine City from John W. Campbell 's short story "Twilight" (1934). The Mechanical Brain from Edgar Rice Burroughs 's Swords of Mars (1934).

  3. Alice and Bob - Wikipedia

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    Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [ 1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 ...

  4. Path (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Path (computing) A path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a string of characters used to uniquely identify a location in a directory structure. It is composed by following the directory tree hierarchy in which components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory. The delimiting character is most commonly the ...

  5. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    &name; where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The semicolon is required. Because numbers are harder for humans to remember than names, character entity references are most often written by humans, while numeric character references are most often produced by computer programs. [1]

  6. List of fictional scientists and engineers - Wikipedia

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    Leonard of Quirm ( Discworld) – super-intelligent clockpunk engineer. Col John "Renny" Renwick ( Doc Savage) – civil engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Maj Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts ( Doc Savage) – electrical engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Dr. Clark Savage, Jr., a.k.a. Doc Savage ( Doc Savage) – surgeon, scientist, adventurer ...

  7. List of fictional robots and androids - Wikipedia

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    The Badniks, the E-Series robots, Dr. Eggman Nega, Captain Whisker, Emerl, Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Metal Knuckles, EggRobo, the Shadow Androids, Cubot, and Orbot from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Grodus, leader of the X-nauts, and the main antagonist of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

  8. Computer file - Wikipedia

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    Computer file. In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename. Just as words can be written on paper, so too can data be written to a computer file. Files can be shared with and transferred between computers and mobile devices via removable media, networks, or ...

  9. Universal Character Set characters - Wikipedia

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    The Unicode Consortium and the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 jointly collaborate on the list of the characters in the Universal Coded Character Set.The Universal Coded Character Set, most commonly called the Universal Character Set (abbr. UCS, official designation: ISO/IEC 10646), is an international standard to map characters, discrete symbols used in natural language, mathematics, music, and other ...